Interested in adding some variety to each stadium backdrop in the match engine? Looking to bring a club’s fan culture and colors into the game? Hopefully this graphics mod, updated from last year's edition, can help: it replaces the various generic FM/Sega/sigames/etc ads along the stadium with club-specific supporter’s flags, logos, tifos, and more, thereby giving each match backdrop a bit more local color and fan flair. SI put a lot more adboards all around the stadiums this year, so there's even more opportunities to see club-specific colors and fan culture all around the game.

WHAT’S INSIDE? Banners, flags, and other team-specific graphics to give your FM15 3D match engine a more colorful experience. Almost 5,000 club or league-linked images (nearly double last year's version). STADIUM BANNERS FROM THE TOP FIVE EUROPEAN LEAGUES: ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP * LA LIGA * BUNDESLIGA 1 * SERIE A * LIGUE 1

Plus EVERY OTHER CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TEAM FOR 2014/2015 and NEARLY EVERY EUROPA LEAGUE TEAM.

NEW THIS YEAR!SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP

SKY BET LEAGUE ONE

MLS (includes NYFC, New York Cosmos, and Orlando City), plus special focus on CONCACAF including top teams from LIGA MX and CONCACAF Champions League veterans like Saprissa, Olimpia Honduras, Tauro FC, and more.

South American squads, including 9 teams from Argentine Primera Division, 17 clubs from Brazilian Championship, and high-ranking clubs from other South American nations for those playing in the Copa Libertadores.

AND...: league-specific ads that will appear if you are playing a team not in the file. For instance, a Liga Adelante game will generate Spain-specific, Liga Adelante ads if that team is not in the file; same with all leagues mentioned above, including Champions League, Europa League, Copa Libertadores, etc. Friendly games outside of an official league (or a league not in the file) will show SI’s FM15 default ads.

2. Place large pictures/ads folder inside Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2016/graphics folder. (If you do not have a graphics folder yet, please create one. If you already have a graphics and pictures folder, place large ads folder within the graphics/pictures folder, so that it should now read graphics/pictures/ads.)

3. Please restart FM16 entirely. Only when FM16 is restarted will it read the new ads xml file that we’ve added in.

4. Go to Preferences/Interface screen in game; please click on Clear Cache, and then Reload Skin.

5. Individual team banners and flags should now appear. Enjoy.

NOTE: Some custom skins may have a separate graphics/pictures folder within their skin, and will only read pictures and graphics if they are placed inside it. If you are using a custom skin and the banners are not appearing, please move the large ads folder into that skin’s graphics/pictures folder and see if that works. Again, restart the game, etc etc.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS!As with the FM14 version of this that I created last year, this mod owes thanks to the “FM 14 Ad Board Patch” created by tv_capper at sortitoutsi.net, which added realistic ads to the advertising boards. We’ve used their original xml file as a base, changing where necessary and adding a lot onto it, and replaced all their league-specific ad images with club-specific banners and flags. Also thanks to a user called renato_2913 on the fm-brasil forums, whose mod put club-specific tifos into the Brazilian league; it’s where I first noticed this was possible. Without the work of these users, this mod could never have been imagined, so thanks again to them.**

** Images were found through various sources: PES and FIFA users who created their own banner collections, websites devoted to pictures of ultras and tifos, scarf vendors, individual club and supporters’ sites, and many more. Special mention to the great banners created by users like Uomagnetico on the soccergaming.com forum; Zirko on the oltreilclacio Italian FM forums, Edwin on the pessoccerworld forums, and more.**

FINAL WORDSEnjoy!! Questions? Comments? Let me know. This mod isn't designed to faithfully replicate every signboard in every stadium, merely to find a way to insert some fan culture and club colors into the game. Nor does it duplicate advertising banners, so no signboards for Mastercard, Adidas, etc, although I have added some for the league-specific defaults. If you are interested in realistic advertising banners, the sortitoutsi.net TV Adboards mod by tv_capper is what you should find. Finally, it proved too time-consuming to position every supporter's flag into its correct spot in a stadium (Curva Nord in the North end, etc), especially as the images are repeated 3-5 times, so apologies for that. Thanks again, and enjoy!

Thanks to http://community.sigames.com/member.php/314175-strangerthankindness

Last edited by Gerdundula on 2015-11-24, 15:13; edited 2 times in total

BuonannoMember

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2014-12-19, 08:26

Is possible have one for Jena?

PoshWebmaster

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2014-12-19, 09:51

I am sure there will be future updates to the pack.

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-01-07, 17:44

You can do a simple guide how to do it? I do not quite understand.

I need to have only banners and flags. Need a compatibility fm15 adboards patch non-clubs.

sorry for my english))

PoshWebmaster

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-01-07, 19:07

Oh, only banners? Nothing around with just them unless you copy and duplicate what is already in your folders. Open your folders up and see what is in there and what you want to duplicate. Just keep the same size and name of the picture

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2. Place large pictures/ads folder inside Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics folder. (If you do not have a graphics folder yet, please create one. If you already have a graphics and pictures folder, place large ads folder within the graphics/pictures folder, so that it should now read graphics/pictures/ads.)

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2. Place large pictures/ads folder inside Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics folder. (If you do not have a graphics folder yet, please create one. If you already have a graphics and pictures folder, place large ads folder within the graphics/pictures folder, so that it should now read graphics/pictures/ads.)

Yeah, I know where to put the folders, I think you mis-understood me but thanks anyway, my question was for the banners only not the ad boards, I don't see any graphics that make up the banners only the ads. I was wanting to make my own banners/flags

PoshWebmaster

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-09-16, 16:22

2. Place large pictures/ads folder inside Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics folder. (If you do not have a graphics folder yet, please create one. If you already have a graphics and pictures folder, place large ads folder within the graphics/pictures folder, so that it should now read graphics/pictures/ads.)

Yeah, I know where to put the folders, I think you mis-understood me but thanks anyway, my question was for the banners only not the ad boards, I don't see any graphics that make up the banners only the ads. I was wanting to make my own banners/flags

Ahhh, gotcha. The team name banners in the stands are actually set in the game and difficult to mod. What this mod has done has replaced some of the lower and upper adboards with banners. So you could do the same in the adboards folder, just make sure that the one you change is the same size etc as the one in the folder.

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-09-16, 16:33

Ahh, I see. So my best bet would be to place my flags etc. over an existing ad board to give appearance it's hanging over, no worries I can do that easily. Thanks for the replies

kinda like that

mykalMember

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-09-17, 19:34

Hmmmm..... looking at the example picture of Norwich City at the top of this page, none of those graphics are in the folder for Norwich City, DC United doesn't have a folder at all yet is displayed here at the top of the page??? am I missing something?

Oh my... what a total ass I am!!!seems I've been using the wrong ad's pack all along, might just help if I download the one here.Hahahahaha

PoshWebmaster

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-09-18, 17:21

Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-11-11, 01:42

So I moved my Ads folder from FM15 to FM16 and I came upon a problem. The default ads from FM16: such as the Movember ad, the FM handleheld ad, ect.. are in my game getting in the way of the modded in adboards. Some of the ads are suppose to be there such as the competetion logo adboard but alot of them are blocked. Any idea how to get rid of them? Thanks

GerdundulaDirector of Football

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-11-13, 13:31

did you clear the cache after installing?

I havent seen that problem with mine tbh. Some of the banners do overhang over the boards but thats supposed to look that way replicating real games

squintz69Junior Member

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-11-13, 21:08

I figured out what I did!

I moved over my ads folder that was in /graphics/pictures/ads but didn't move the ads folder that was in the general /documents/sportsinteractive/footballmanager16/ads folder that contains the fm.xml folder.

GerdundulaDirector of Football

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-11-13, 21:46

I moved over my ads folder that was in /graphics/pictures/ads but didn't move the ads folder that was in the general /documents/sportsinteractive/footballmanager16/ads folder that contains the fm.xml folder.

Kad38Member

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Subject: Re: Adboards/banners for all versions of FM 2015-11-26, 01:21

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